Inverter miniaturizing technologies for EV/HEV applications

Author

Kuramoto, Y. ; Maekawa, H. ; Majumdar, G. ; Hussein, K.H. ; Kikunaga, T. ; Okuda, T.

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

261

Lastpage

264

Abstract

In this paper, an integrated intelligent power drive unit (IPU) is introduced as the next generation electric power module and inverter for EV/HEV. The IPU designs are based on new concepts to achieve a very compact overall structure, high reliability, high functionality and high efficiency. At first, the technologies to miniaturize the inverter are introduced and the benchmarks between the current inverter system using IPM (intelligent power module) and using IPU are shown. Finally, to verify the validity of IPU design, experimental data are shown

Keywords

DC-AC power convertors; electric vehicles; insulated gate bipolar transistors; invertors; power bipolar transistors; power integrated circuits; compact structure; efficiency; electric power module; electric vehicles; functionality; hybrid electric vehicles; integrated intelligent power drive unit; intelligent power module; inverter miniaturisation; reliability; Automotive engineering; Hybrid electric vehicles; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Intelligent structures; Intelligent vehicles; Inverters; Multichip modules; Power system reliability; Semiconductor diodes; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Electronics Conference, 2001. IVEC 2001. Proceedings of the IEEE International

Conference_Location

Tottori

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7229-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVEC.2001.961764

Filename

961764